Capital ends where desire ends, so there is no capitalism behind the looking glass... there is something else... we cannot know what that something else is... therefore it's absurd for us to talk about it... "What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence" etc
Do you mean to tell me I'm just imagining things because I'm retarded? Why don't you just block me instead of insulting/spamming my timeline? A little intellectual humility would seem to be in order, especially you aren't familiar with either Land or his sources.
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I’m happy to keep engaging with you, but only on the condition of good faith. Land is in any case less willfully obscure than Heidegger. The second essay I recced might be better for you since you have some point of reference.
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You misread the core concept of the essay. The machinic unconscious is "the auto-production of the real," i.e. nothing exists except as it is produced by "machines,”as as thermodynamic gradients, or as complex as the human body, or as abstract as capital.
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The machinic unconscious has existed and will exist for as long as difference (i.e. thermodynamic gradient) exists. Machinic desire is affirmation of difference.
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This primary production is more fundamental to the “real” than secondary processes like “consciousness" or “care.” To stake all value on the secondary is an idealist confusion.
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Exclusive focus on the secondary process leaves us closed to the unknown (or “completely unrecognizable”) possibilities lurking in the machinic unconscious, trapped in the death-bound individuated ego.
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“We have reached the final chapter of being: The Human.” This is the rejection of difference, which is to say, nihilism. Good thing endless parochial humanism is impossible, on a physical level. As long as we have thermodynamics gradients, being will be changeable and insecure.
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